Quote #1
The Gods sell when they give. / Glory is paid for with disgrace. / Poor are the happy, for they are / Just what passes.
More from Fernando Pessoa
- Myth is the nothing that is all.
- All beginnings are unvoluntary.
- I fulfilled my duty against destiny. / Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
- Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, / and clear in wanting
- Faithful to the word given and the idea had. / All else is up to God!
- Without madness what is man / more than the healthy beast, / corpse adjourned that procreates?
- God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
- The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire undid itself. / Lord, Portugal remains to be accomplished!